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The First Lady knows what’s coming
At 2:31 this afternoon, she walked through the tall doorway, past the two standing American flags, and stood at the podium inside the Grand Foyer of the White House. She was there to deliver a last-minute address to the American people. Her voice was measured, angry, and cold during her nearly six-minute speech, where she read from a prepared statement. In it, the First Lady of the United States delivered a bizarre performance that felt less like a denial of involvement and more like an attempt to get out ahead of something she clearly does not want to go down with. "The lies linking me with...